Calls mount for refugees to be 'urgently evacuated' to Australia as PNG's coronavirus crisis worsens

Some 130 refugees and asylum seekers sent by Australia to Manus Island in 2013 and 2014 remain in PNG, with all but two now in Port Moresby. The six positive cases are isolating in a hotel and other accommodation One of the refugees, who didn't want to be named, told AAP he tested positive last Tuesday after attending hospital with stomach pains. Doctors told him he has pneumonia in his chest.

Calls mount for refugees to be 'urgently evacuated' to Australia as PNG's coronavirus crisis worsens